Ornament fastener



y 16, 1933- E. R. HUGHES ET AL 1,909,353

ORNAMENT FASTENER Filed April 20, 1932 PI .1 FIE-.E...

lN VENTORS:

EUCi-ENE R. Huqh'ss, ARTHUR H- BoRWlcI-f Patented May 16, 1933 UNITEDSTATES EUGENE R. HUGHES AND ARTHUR H. BORWIGKLOF HUNTINGTON PARK,CALIFORNIA,

PATENT "OFFICE A ASSIGNORS T JAMES C. HARRIS, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIAORNAMENT Application filed April 20,

This invention relates to devices used for fastening ornaments to theends of bars.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide an improved andsimplified fastener Without set screws.

Another object is to provide a spring in the socket of the ornamentshaped to snugly hold the ornament to an unfinished end of a rod.

Another object is to provide a socket, in the ornament to be fastened,with recesses whereby a spring can be snapped into a certain positionwithin such a socket of the ornament to serve in fastening the ornamentto the end of a bar.

Other objects will appear from the following description and appendedclaims as well as from the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a longitudinal mid-sectional view through the end of anornament having a rod end held in the socket of the ornament-end by aspring.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary longitudinal section of an ornament fastener ofanimproved form.

Fig. 3 is a cross-section through a round bar with cut-outs into whichends of springs point.

Fig. 4 is a side view of a curtain rod with ornaments on the ends.

Ornaments 5 placed on the ends of a curtain rod 6 of a form illustratedin Fig. 4 are commonly secured by means of set-screws,

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spring 7 rest, thereby holding the spring in a certain aligned positionto assure a pre-determined holding of the ornament on the end of acurtain-rod,

As a rule the frictional engagement of the A spring, the curved portion10 being shaped so as to bind upon the sides of the curtain-rod, isfully suflicient to firmly hold the ornament to the curtain-rod,however, as an improvement, in the form illustrated in Fig. 2, extranotches 11 are provided in the curtain-rod 6 which makes it more surethat the ornament in this form will be held more positively aligned in adesired manner, and furthermore, necessitating a certain effort toremove this ornament.

Fig. 3 is merely shown to make it under-. stood that an ornament can beas securely held to a round bar as to a square or otherwise shaped bar,the bar 6 having also notches 11 into which the spring portions 1O aremade to engage.

We claim:

1. A rod-end, a body to be fastened to the Y rod-end having a socketwith recesses in and 7 near the open end of the socket, and a springbent upon itself and having its free ends bent outwardly to engage insaid recesses in the socket of said body and adapted to impinge upon thesides of the rod-end with portions close to the ends of the spring.

2. A rod-end, a body to be fastened to the rod-end having a socket withrecesses in the socket, and a spring bent upon itself with the free endsbent outwardly to engage in said recesses in the socket of the body, theportions near the outwardly bent ends being curved inwardly beyond thedoubled-up main portions of the spring adapted to en- I gage upon thesides of said rod-end for firmly holding the body on the rod-end.

3. A rod-end having notches cut crosswise in the opposite sides of therod-end, a body having a socket with recesses in the oph p posite sides,and a spring bent upon itself with the free .ends bent outwardly toengage in said recesses in the socket of the body, the portions near theoutwardly bent ends being curved inwardly beyond the doubled-up main [i]portions of the spring adapted to engage in said cross-cuts of the rodfor firmly holding said body aligned on the rod.

In testimony that We claim the foregoing as our invention We have signedour names. {1Q EUGENE R. HUGHES.

ARTHUR H. BORWICK.

